Here you can see diverse test and trials done in 3ds max, with various degrees of post-work in Photoshop

Altough there is nothing in particular refered to the modelling of this scene (as well as the superior image, only the toy car is a model of my own), the video you are going to see has the distinction of beign rendered and illuminated using a home-made HDR image (it is actually my father’s study), using a mirror ball. Render has been made in V-Ray using IBL method, in an old Pentium IV, therefore we see a lot of artifacts due to the limitations of that machine.